monthly
/ˈmʌnθli/adjective, adverb, noun
monthly is spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is montly: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 63 of all searches for the word. Monthly is an adjective meaning “Occurring every month”.
How many letters and syllables are in monthly?
| Letters | 7: M-O-N-T-H-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,992nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, montly, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell monthly?
Monthly is spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 62 of the searches for monthly in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is monthly?
Monthly appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce monthly?
- /ˈmʌnθli/
Monthly has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-monthly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of monthly
- mon.
- monthlies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monthly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Occurring every month.
It's time give the dog its monthly bath.
adverb
- 1
Every month.
Rent must be paid monthly.
noun
- 1
A publication that is published once a month.
- 2
The menstrual period.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate monthly?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of monthly: mon..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monthly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mensuel, mensuellement |
| German | monatlich , Monatsblatt, Monatsheft, Monatsschrift , Monatsblutung |
| Portuguese | mensal, mensual, mensalmente |
| Spanish | mensual, mensil (disused), mensualmente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does monthly come from?
From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).